>I just read your message to him, and now it officially makes no sense to me *grin*. Those checkboxes appear to serve more than one function, and those functions seem to be opposed to each other. For some reason, the .NET box was not checked for me. That meant there was *no* way (as far as I can tell) for me to get to that forum...it did not appear in the drop down at the top, and the messages were not appearing virtually. IOW, the .NET messages were not showing in the top frame or the bottom frame ("Messages since logged in") along with the other forums.

You will get them when there will some new messages. Keep in mind that not all forum have VFP traffic.

As you have checked .Net in both definition, then it'll show new messages from .Net no matter in where you are. But, as I mentioned, there is no need to push further on it, I already confirmed that this will probably go away in a few days as we already provide easy mecanisms for the initial request when the option was developed.